I have noticed myself noticing more since I started drawing again, and in particular noticing how one can see the world as to-be-drawn. When I look around now I can feel my hand preparing to draw what I'm looking at, leading me to further notice things about what I'm looking at—such as curves, intersections, shadows—that I had not noticed before.

I have similarly begun to notice things about the philosophers themselves that I had not noticed before—such as how pouty were the lips of Kant and Kierkegaard, or the evolution of Nietzsche's magnificent 'stache. Perhaps drawing philosophers is indeed a way to get to know the philosophers in a way that their works alone could not provide...